Description of data and do files provided to replicate the results in Siminski (2013) 'Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans� Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries'
The Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 87�97.

* DATA NOTES:

There are several 1st-stage and several 2nd-stage Stata data files provided, all of which are highly aggregated. There are numerous reasons for this:

* The underlying data (from each source) were obtained by the author under the condition that they would not be shared with others without approval of the custodians.
* Highly aggregated summaries can be provided and these are sufficient to replicate the analysis.
* In the case of Census data - the included files were constructed by the author from numerous frequency tabulations (as discussed in the manuscript). As such, there is a separate data file for each Census outcome variable.
* The empirical approach is 2-sample 2SLS


* LIST OF DATA FILES AND BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS

first_stage    				STATA Dataset - the main first stage database
first_stage_w_DOB_exclusions    	STATA Dataset - the first stage database, with DOB exclusions necessary for analysis of tax data, as outlined in the manuscript
not_recent_migrant			STATA Dataset - Proportion of men in each birth cohort/ballot outcome who were born in Aus or arrived before the age of 20 - at 2006 (calculated from restricted access Census data)
second_stage_employ_census		STATA Dataset - the main second stage database - for employment outcomes from the 2006 Census
second_stage_disability_census		STATA Dataset - a second stage database - disability status from the 2006 Census
second_stage_inc06_census		STATA Dataset - a second stage database - personal income from the 2006 Census
second_stage_schooling_census		STATA Dataset - a second stage database - schooling from the 2006 Census
second_stage_dis_pension		STATA Dataset - a second stage database - disability pension (special rate) receipt
second_stage_tax_returns		STATA Dataset - a second stage database - employment and earnings - from income tax returns


* DO FILE NOTES:

Stata do files are provided which reproduce the results published in each Table and in Figure 1. These files should be run consecutively

There are some trivial differences between the sample sizes produced by these replication files and those published in 'Table 1 - Descriptive Statistics' and in the Note to Table 3. These result from rounding error.
Each data set is a frequency weighted file. As discussed in the manuscript, each file (with the exception of Census data) was constructed from administrative data combined with published population aggregates.
This procedure does not guarantee that the resulting frequency weights are integers. The sample sizes shown in the published version of Table 1 and the Note to Table 3 were calculated prior to rounding these weights into integers. 


* LIST OF STATA DO FILES
Replicate Table 1
Replicate Table 2
Replicate Table 3 and Figure 1
Replicate Table 4
Replicate Table 5

Please contact the author with any queries. Thanks for your interest!